RUNAKO DANIEL SETS TWO NATIONAL RECORDS Immediately following the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Joshua Runako Daniel traveled to Irvine, California, to compete in the USA Swimming 2013 Speedo Junior National Championships held at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center Entering the 50M Free at number 64th, Runako shot up to 28th place with a new St Lucia National Record of 23.87s Earlier in the week, Runako completed a time trial in 100M Free, and recorded a time of 53.43s, also a National Record time. This brings to six...

Christine Jennings (USA) and Brazilian Samuel de Bona placed third at FINA 10K Marathon World Cup FINA 10KM MARATHON SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2013 World champions Grimaldi (ITA) and Lurz (GER) win in Lac Megantic Lausanne (SUI), August 12, 2013 – After taking second (in Eilat and Cozumel) and third (in Viedma), 25km World champion Thomas Lurz (GER) won his first race of the 2013 World Cup circuit in Lac Megantic (CAN), clocking 2h15m35s, on August 10. The German great was closely followed by compatriot Christian Reichert (first in Eilat), who...

Five medals, national record for Canadians at World Cup BERLIN – Canadian swimmers enjoyed their best day so far on the 2013 FINA World Cup swimming circuit with a silver and four bronze medals to conclude the second stop. Sandrine Mainville of Montreal collected two bronze including a Canadian short course record in the women’s 100-m freestyle clocking 52.41 seconds. That eclipsed the previous national mark of 52.51 set by two-time Olympian Victoria Poon of Montreal in 2010. Two Dutch swimmers finished ahead of Mainville. Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands...

World Masters Games 2013--Turin (Italy) last Friday - this Sunday (August 2-11) http://www.torino2013wmg.org/results?results=swimming&lang=en -Swimming is one of 29 sports at the Games

Tyler Clary (Riverside, Calif.) clocked a time of 3:36:86 to win the men's 400-meter freestyle at the 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup, held Aug. 8-10 in Berlin. He also took the silver medal in the 200 backstroke, while Thomas Shields (Huntington Beach, Calif.) won the 100 butterfly and Claire Donahue (Dallas, Texas) captured a fifth-place finish in the women's 100 butterfly. Tyler Clary (Riverside,Calif.) finished second in the 200-meter backstroke at the 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup, held Aug. 7-8 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Thomas Shields (Huntington Beach, Calif.) finished second...

Canadian record, silver for Savard at World Cup BERLIN – For the second time this week Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., won the silver medal and broke the Canadian short course record in the women’s 100-metre butterfly on Saturday to open the second stop on the FINA World Cup swimming circuit. Canada also added a silver and bronze in the 4X50-m mixed medley relay. In the women’s 100-m butterfly, Jeannette Ottesen Gray of Denmark was the winner in 55.94 seconds. Savard followed in 56.35 to eclipse the previous national mark...

HPD reflects on first worlds at the helm BARCELONA – Swimming Canada High Performance Director John Atkinson has been focused on improvement from Day 1, and he saw plenty of things he liked during his first FINA World Championships at the helm. Canada left Barcelona with four swimming medals, qualifying for a total of 11 finals and missing two others by just 0.05 seconds each. As the first major international meet on the four-year road to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the worlds offered several good signs that...

Lausanne (SUI), August 9, 2013 – Still fresh from their performances at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona (ESP), the best swimmers of the planet met again in Eindhoven (NED), for the first leg of the FINA Swimming World Cup, held on August 7-8. And the result was outstanding, with no less than six new World Records established in the two-day competition, completed by four World Cup records. The brightest star in Eindhoven (the Dutch city hosted for the first time a leg of the World Cup) was Hungary’s...

MOSCOW, RUSSIA--The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met today in Moscow. As part of the meeting, changes to the sport programs for the 2016 Olympics were considered. The Executive Board maintained its earlier decision to not increase the number of athletes nor medal events at the Games. As such, all changes to the Olympic program (from 2012 to 2016) involved exchanging one event for another, or moving athlete allocations from one event to another. Exchanges were made for in four sports, based on requests made by their...

CANADA--Swimming Canada has announced a 28-swimmer team (14 girls, 14 boys) for the 2013 Junior Worlds, August 26- 31 in Dubai, UAE. Coaches for the meet are (6): Murray Drudge, Dave Johnson, Janusz Kaczmarek, Ryan Mallette, Ken McKinnon and Kevin Thorburn. Team roster can be found online here: https://www.swimming.ca/2013WorldJuniorChampionships